Garden of Cosmic Speculation
The Long Way Home reference: Place that Peter visits.
Real world location: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks and his wife, Maggie Keswick Jencks, on Maggie's land and their home together, Portrack House, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Like much of Jencks' work, the garden is inspired by modern cosmology.
The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as black holes and fractals. The garden is not abundant with plants, but sets mathematical formulae and scientific phenomena in a setting which elegantly combines natural features and artificial symmetry and curves. It is probably unique among gardens, drawing comparisons with a similarly abstract garden in Scotland, Little Sparta.
The garden is private but usually opens for only one day each year for a limited number of ticket holders through the Scotland's Gardens programme and raises money for Maggie's Centres, a cancer care charity named for Maggie Keswick Jencks.
2 Lower Portrack Cottages, Holywood, Dumfries DG2 0RW, United Kingdom
This post was inspired by:
More Photos From Garden of Cosmic Speculation (click to enlarge)
This, I think, would be an amazing place to visit. I can only imagine how a character like Peter, from The Long Way Home, who strives for perfection it the strictest of ways would respond to a garden such as this. Would love to have stood beside him when he experienced this place.